Today’s moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
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With Wednesday’s deadline for high school seniors to declare their college choice, I talk to an expert about what parents can expect in the college years and beyond. One thing many can look forward to — their kids will come back home for a while. In a guest column, a professor calls for a unique form of parental civil disobedience to deliver the message there’s too much testing in schools today: Have children answer only half the test questions. Readers sounds off on whether the growing backlash against testing by parents and educators is justified.
Parents needn't fret by Maureen Downey
Guest columnist:
Civil disobedience could end testing mania by Jonathan R. Herman
Response to recent conversation from the AJC Get Schooled blog
